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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1919
Page
2
Court orders a probe into leaks as speculators try to exploit advance Supreme Court decisions. Authorities vow swift action to identify sources and curb market manipulation. Officials emphasize integrity of judicial processes and continued vigilance against leak-driven trading. Policymakers urge transparency and prompt reporting of new developments.
The statement centers on Burke and Washington figures amid a tense inquiry into market abuses. It notes a planned investigation by Moses, a New York departmental head, and references a potential constitutional shift provoked by President Wilson era tensions and reformist aims.
Washington reports bind the wartime liquor policy to peace and declares a sweeping victory for prohibitionists as alcohol stocks valued around 100 billion dollars face new federal control. Railroads warn of collapse without new legislation while Mexico sees ransom-fed releases and Villa-linked violence alter crime and diplomacy.
The article reports a near-unanimous push to end a prolonged strike with government final adjustments. It notes a single vote against settlement and mentions key figures, committees, and proposed terms guiding workers returning to duty.
A fragmented wartime plea emphasizes boosting production and opposing profiteering. It argues for open material flow from producer to consumer and warns that artificial obstructions threaten essential wartime needs and worker wages. The piece stresses unity and rapid abolition of barriers to meet public demand.
The Army plans disinterment of American soldiers from graves, with fifty eight men and a detachment sailing from New York aboard the transport Martha Washington to Southampton to begin work in England. Premier Clemenceau returned from London with a rib injury after a fall on a destroyer crossing the channel. He arrived at the station amid a warm reception and summoned his physician Dr. Tuffier. Amateur wireless bugs in the Midwest were treated to Jazz and grand opera broadcasts from a U S Navy station on the Transportation Building. Chief Electrician Grover M Dickman demonstrated a high power wireless telephone transmitter and phonograph, recording “Pre Got My Captain Working for Me Now.”
Director General Hines announces removal of railroad restraints enabling the restoration of train service nationwide. Officials say freight and passenger operations will resume gradually with updated safety procedures and schedule recoveries to follow.
Garfield rejected discussing the settlement amid a row over government price controls and mine workers. Officials said the public and operators are now in the hands of the United Mine Workers, with wage terms and coal pricing under debate as industry and government grapple with the crisis.
Officials say most coal mines will resume output soon after a general conference endorses the Garfield plan for a 10 percent wage rise and staged return to work. Miners to trust elected reps while awaiting final settlement. a convention will explain the move. Lab raids target radicals. journalism and law actions shift focus to postwar controls.
News from London reports Italy pressing for control of Fiume with D Annunzio’s influence waning. A three power conference adjourned in London as Britain France and the United States discuss postwar arrangements, including potential military and political realignments in the region and broader European policy.
Witnesses recount a new lava fountain 800 feet across rising 300 feet above the crater rim near Walohinu. Miss Louis MacMillan of Honolulu describes standing on hot rock, glowing coals, and cracked lava as night fell, with the sky lit by a rosy glow reflected from the lava and clouds.
Tim othy Fitzgerald leaped from a tenth floor window at a Brooklyn hotel using a rope tied to his waist and crashed through a ninth floor window, knocking down Mrs. M. Candas and thwarting her plan to die by her own action after she locked herself in.
Connellsville reports Col James J Shurnbart, a Civil War veteran, recounts a barber charged him 4000 Confederate dollars in Atlanta during Sherman’s march. He vowed never to shave again, a decision linked to that infamous price and memory of Sherman's campaign. A separate item notes blind Marion resident Mrs Ezra Stimson raises 75 chickens, with a five month old laying eggs. Pittsburgh reports a boy’s accidental self-hanging while playing cowboy. New York cites spiritualists pursuing Captain Kidd’s buried treasure. Caster City’s John Myers, 22, praised as a substantial local figure with a beam-tipping income around 40 pounds.
The clipping lists livestock and produce prices with per unit figures for rabbits, sows, heifers, sheep, fowls, and butter in a late market report. It also notes John D. Rockefeller Jr. donating 25000 to the Actors Fund of America in gratitude for war work aid. Police report recounts a cottage wreck in Los Angeles harbor district linked to a former German army officer.
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